A Florida woman said an airline worker at a North Carolina airport refused to allow her to fly home with an oxygen tank because she didn't have the proper paperwork.

Seventy-eight-year-old Jane Graham-Bailey, of Jensen Beach, told the Asheville Citizen-Times that she hoped to board a flight in Asheville to go home in time for an Easter dinner with her family, after visiting her daughter in North Carolina.

“I have never been treated that way, ever,” Graham-Bailey told the newspaper. “It was a man who misused his power.”

Allegiant Air spokeswoman Jessica Wheeler said Graham-Bailey was denied passage because she didn't have a required physician consent form for the oxygen tank. Wheeler said the airline's rules are based on FAA regulations.

“Oxygen tanks are highly flammable,” Wheeler told the paper. “We need to ensure, for everyone’s safety, that an oxygen tank has been recently inspected and that it is medically safe for the passenger to fly."

Graham-Bailey said no one asked for paperwork when she flew from Florida to North Carolina. She said she plans to fly home Sunday from a Tennessee airport and was awaiting a physician consent form.